Autism care bill goes to full Senate vote

Reclassifies illness as medical, requiring insurance payments

11:49 PM,
Mar. 3, 2009

Written by

Deborah Yetter
dyetter@courier-journal.com

A child's diagnosis of autism can be devastating for a family -- but so can the costs of the intensive therapy some children need, according to a group of Kentucky parents.

That's why they are hoping a bill to require insurance companies to pay for autism therapies passes the legislature this session.

"It is so needed," said Anne Gregory, an Anchorage mother of a son with autism and supporter of Senate Bill 74. "You have to think of the impact -- without therapy, these kids are going to cost the state more when they are adults." ...